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Ya. I don't have much space. I think I can build something that takes up next to no space

16 gallon tanks I was thinking about https://a.co/d/8OMgt3V

Do you have the heater and pump permanently installed? I'm thinking I'd have them permanently installed and then put them on a 12 or 24 hour spring timer.

Not sure I follow. How does the fresh water get in the salt tank? Or are you saying gravity, with the fresh water being higher? I'm thinking about buying these 16 gallon tanks. What should I use for bulkheads to add some more bigger sized ports?

I've been tossing around the idea of a small water mixing station. A large freshwater tank and a large salt water tank. When I say large, I mean large for me, which would probably be tiny for most people. Something like 10 or 20 gallons per tank. This would NOT be plumbed to the tank/sump. Just a more convenient way to mix and store saltwater and still use buckets to get to the tank. My question is what all would be needed for plumbing? Freshwater seems pretty straightforward, RODI water input with a float valve and 2 outputs with ball valves. One of which connected to the salt water tank. Then saltwater would need port to dump salt in to. A pump and heater to mix the salt. And then an output with a ball valve to collect the water. Am I missing anything?

I should be there

What's the appeal of the branching stuff? When I was looking for gsp, cuttlefish had some branching covering a rock. It looked super invasive to me. Like it would grow like ivy. Or like bamboo that pops up all over your yard and you can't stop it. I have no experience with it though. I could be totally wrong

I've decided I have too much green coral in my tank and I need to balance it out. Does anyone have any florescent pink/red goni?

Location?

In other news, the briopsys is popping up all over the tank, I decided to just bite the bullet and dumped some reef flux in. I also picked up some coral from @Blue Z Reef for a great price. Got some duncans that i turned in to 3 colonies, frogspawn that i turned in to 2 colonies, an anemone, some gsp, mushrooms, and some zoas/pallys.

Sump passed the leak test. Now to add baffles

I wasn't aware that anything ate briopsys. Will they cure it completely? I'm not sure I followed you on the Peppermint shrimp. I do have two of them

Eek 😟 I noticed the briopsys in a few different spots. It's definitely spread out throught the tank. My only thought for holding off is maybe to wait until I get more coral. I feel like I'm going to load up on coral and then have to do it again

I probably should have taken you up on that. I got out the mirrorless camera and tripod and took some good pictures and posted on reef2reef and they said 100%, it's definitely cyano. I turned my lights from 40% blue and 10% white to only 40% blue. I also started feeding my diamond watchman goby on that side of the tank. I don't know which is responsible, but it's completely cleared from the sand. In other news, I noticed some small patches of briopsys. I immediately ordered some reef flux. I don't know why, but this threw me over the top to want to try a blackout and try to kill the green hair algae and cyano In more positive news, I've got the sump taking shape. I just have to reinforce the corners and make baffles

Do you think I could bring some over to look at under the microscope?